Lack Of Damage To CE-399

[John Tonkovich]

To address the "lack of damage" to CE-399...

The bullet (CE-399) leaves the muzzle of the Carcano traveling around 2100 feet per second.

The bullet, traveling roughly 1700 feet per second, strikes Kennedy in the upper back and exits the neck.

The bullet, now slowed having passed through Kennedy's neck, hits Connally in the back, causing an 8mm x 15mm elliptical wound.  This wound measurement proves that the bullet was tumbling when it hit Connally's back, proof that the bullet had passed through something else BEFORE hitting Connally in the back.

The bullet, now traveling at around half of it's original speed, strikes Connally's fifth rib, completely shattering it.  Damage to the bullet was minimal due to the fact that it was not traveling anywhere near full speed when it struck the rib.

The bullet exits Connally's chest and while traveling less than half of it's original rate of speed, enters the right wrist, striking the radius bone.  Again, damage to the bullet is minimal because of it's slow rate of speed when it struck the radius.

The bullet exits the palm side of the wrist and while traveling at less than one-fifth of it's original speed, enters the left thigh and embedding itself in the thigh muscles.  The bullet didn't go any further because it was not traveling fast enough upon striking the thigh.

The bottom line is that damage to the bullet was minimal because, when it struck rib bone and radius bone, it simply had been slowed considerably, moving too slowly to be damaged.  The bullet would have been greatly fragmented (basically destroyed), if when it struck the radius bone in Connally's right wrist, it was traveling at the same rate of speed as it was when it struck Kennedy in the upper back.

What about the bullet fragment in Connallys thigh?

[Jerry Freeman]

Parkland personnel director O.P. Wright, cast doubt on whether the bullet subsequently entered into evidence as CE 399 was the same bullet he held in his hand that day. Wright told Thompson that the bullet they found was point nosed, whereas CE 399 is round nosed.[115] However, in 1964, both Wright and Darrel Tomlinson, a maintenance employee at Parkland who passed the bullet along to Wright, were shown the bullet and said the bullet in evidence appeared to be the same one as the bullet found on the stretcher, though neither could positively identify the bullet as the same one.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory#Chain_of_evidence

[Mike Orr]

Not only did Parkland Personnel Director O.P. Wright cast doubt on whether the bullet entered into evidence as CE 399 was the same bullet he held in his hand that day ! Wright said the bullet we found that day was point nosed whereas CE 399 was round nosed ? General Walker had doubts about the bullet that he saw the day he was shot at and the bullet that he was shown later on as the same bullet ? It sounds like Gen. Walker & Parkland Personnel Director O.P. Wright wandered away from the script of what they were supposed to say concerning the bullets . If they would have taken out the bullet that was lodged in John Connally's thigh , then they could have seen the bullet , you know CE 399 , the Dog that don't hunt !

[Walt Cakebread]

Not only did Parkland Personnel Director O.P. Wright cast doubt on whether the bullet entered into evidence as CE 399 was the same bullet he held in his hand that day ! Wright said the bullet we found that day was point nosed whereas CE 399 was round nosed ? General Walker had doubts about the bullet that he saw the day he was shot at and the bullet that he was shown later on as the same bullet ? It sounds like Gen. Walker & Parkland Personnel Director O.P. Wright wandered away from the script of what they were supposed to say concerning the bullets . If they would have taken out the bullet that was lodged in John Connally's thigh , then they could have seen the bullet , you know CE 399 , the Dog that don't hunt !

General Walker was a loon....  An utter screwball, and a liar.      And I certainly wouldn't bet the farm on the recollection of O.P Wright.

[Bill Chapman]

General Walker was a loon....  An utter screwball, and a liar.      And I certainly would bet the farm on the recollection of O.P Wright.

And I certainly would bet the farm

Now that's funny

[Walt Cakebread]

And I certainly would bet the farm

Now that's funny

A typo like Lee had "white shit" on when he was photographed.... is funny....   A typo like I certainly would ( not) bet the farm doesn't seem to be very humorous.

[John Tonkovich]

A bullet was lodged in Connally's thigh?

Connally has / had bullet fragment(s) in his thigh. Never removed. Fragments allegedly from pristine CE399. Oops.